Surprising Pictures Ernest Nister C1890 SCARCE MOVING REVOLVING DISCS POP - UP
Item History & Price
SURPRISING PICTURES Undated, First edition, first printing published by Ernest Nister c1885-1890
**An extremely rare volume, large landscape format volume containing ten wonderful revolving/rotating disc pictures which transform to reveal new pictures underneath. You pull a cord/ribbon at the side and the image rotates 360 degrees to slowly reveal an entirely new image, so ten revolving picture wheels which each reveal another stunning chromolithographic image, so 20 circular c...hromolithographic images in total. (See photographs where I have tried to demonstrate exactly how this wonderful book works.
Condition: Fair, Missing the title page and endpapers alas, all pages and thick card boards with the mounted image wheels are disbound, so you are left with the loose pages gathered within the original boards. Boards are rubbed and scuffed to the corners, there is a bump to the bottom right corner, surface marking and scuffs/scratches to the boards, the original cloth spine is wholly present. One of the illustrations to one of the text pages has been neatly coloured otherwise despite a little edgewear and light foxing the contents are reasonably clean and looking well. All ten of the revolving discs are still working wonderfully well and are remarkably without damage, they are very beautiful, many of them of a festive/Christmas theme as suggested by the boards, but we also have charming images at the seaside, domestic scenes, in the garden etc.
One of Ernest Nister's rarest volumes, it is a shame the volume is disbound and missing the title page but regardless it is still such a beautiful thing, and the ten revolving image wheels are what is important here. I have found two previous auction results at over £500!! I am starting this copy at £49.99, considering the damage.
**An extremely rare volume, large landscape format volume containing ten wonderful revolving/rotating disc pictures which transform to reveal new pictures underneath. You pull a cord/ribbon at the side and the image rotates 360 degrees to slowly reveal an entirely new image, so ten revolving picture wheels which each reveal another stunning chromolithographic image, so 20 circular c...hromolithographic images in total. (See photographs where I have tried to demonstrate exactly how this wonderful book works.
Condition: Fair, Missing the title page and endpapers alas, all pages and thick card boards with the mounted image wheels are disbound, so you are left with the loose pages gathered within the original boards. Boards are rubbed and scuffed to the corners, there is a bump to the bottom right corner, surface marking and scuffs/scratches to the boards, the original cloth spine is wholly present. One of the illustrations to one of the text pages has been neatly coloured otherwise despite a little edgewear and light foxing the contents are reasonably clean and looking well. All ten of the revolving discs are still working wonderfully well and are remarkably without damage, they are very beautiful, many of them of a festive/Christmas theme as suggested by the boards, but we also have charming images at the seaside, domestic scenes, in the garden etc.
One of Ernest Nister's rarest volumes, it is a shame the volume is disbound and missing the title page but regardless it is still such a beautiful thing, and the ten revolving image wheels are what is important here. I have found two previous auction results at over £500!! I am starting this copy at £49.99, considering the damage.
